On Monday, Oct 25, 2004, at 22:24 Asia/Singapore, William H. Magill wrote: > > So in the end, the answer is -- your question is not trivial, but is > in fact quite complex. > It is also not really related to learning the command line. There are > a couple of basic Unix texts floating around from O'Reilly that will > get you started -- look at the ones for FreeBSD as they are closest to > OS X of all the various Unix variants out there. Wow. Thanks for the information! Certainly a very concise summary of networking. Much appreciated. -- Best, Mark.